Wanted: pro-business London mayor

There isn’t a pro-business candidate in the contest for London mayor, says Matthew Lynn. That's a shame as the capital could really use one.

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Not even Tories are standing up for business

There are only a few weeks left until London votes for a successor to Boris Johnson, its mayor, on 5 May. The race is an important one. London is now the powerhouse of the British economy and its success is lifting the entire country. But there is a problem. There isn't a pro-business candidate in the contest, on either side of the political divide. That is a shame because as well as it is doing, London could do better still and that would lift the whole economy.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.